Proverbs 16:30
He that shutteth his eyes, [it is] to devise froward things; biting his lips, he bringeth evil to pass.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
In Context
29A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into a way that is not good.
31The hoary head is a crown of glory, [if] it is found in the way of righteousness.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:12A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth;
Proverbs 16:27A man of Belial diggeth up evil, and on his lips there is as a scorching fire.
Micah 7:3Both hands are for evil, to do it well. The prince asketh, and the judge [is there] for a reward; and the great [man] uttereth his soul's greed: and [together] they combine it.
Matthew 14:7whereupon he promised with oath to give her whatsoever she should ask.
John 3:20For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:30-31
29 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good. 30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass. Here is another sort of evil men described to us, that we may neither do like them, nor have any thing to do with them. 1. Such as (like Satan) do all the mischief they can by force and violence, as roaring lions, and not only by fraud and insinuation, as subtle serpents: They are violent men, that do all by rapine and oppression, that… Read the whole commentary →